Liquidate entire portfolio until virus is over?

ForestBluebells

I’m still investing my regular £100 monthly sum but all the extra I drip feed each week in is now sitting as cash in my LISA. Where do you see the live figures? My LISA only seems to update prices once a day. 

eskbanker

ForestBluebells said:

I’m still investing my regular £100 monthly sum but all the extra I drip feed each week in is now sitting as cash in my LISA. Where do you see the live figures? My LISA only seems to update prices once a day. 

Live figures for what?

Shares, ETFs, etc, are traded live and their (close to) real-time prices are readily available from a wide range of public domain services, but other investments such as OEICs are typically only priced daily, so what is it that you're invested in (or looking to invest in)?

newatc

This seems something very special (bad) to me. I hope I live long enough to see that the wise owls of the board who say time in the market is what is important are proved correct.

Ceme3000

newatc said:

This seems something very special (bad) to me. I hope I live long enough to see that the wise owls of the board who say time in the market is what is important are proved correct.

Well this thread started on 3rd March.  I wonder how many are silently wishing that they did liquidate when the OP posed the question. 

snooloui

A dreadful but predictable opening in the USA. Are we going to see the second and third “circuit breakers” triggered though? That is the question.

bostonerimus

My actions for today are to go into my part time job (I can self isolate in an optical lab and be all alone and listen to Radio 4) Then rebalance my portfolio by selling bonds and buying equities and this morning I told my tenants that I'm reducing the rent from $1600/month to $800/month until things get back to normal.

Kendall80

snooloui said:

A dreadful but predictable opening in the USA. Are we going to see the second and third “circuit breakers” triggered though? That is the question.

Dow 11.9% down at the moment. Not the sort of response the Fed was expecting I would presume. However, massive emergency measures and policy changes are going to cause investors a great deal of concern.

womble_87

It was suggested (not by anyone official, just a financial journalist) on the news today that the stock markets could be suspended for the duration. 

Thrugelmir

womble_87 said:

It was suggested (not by anyone official, just a financial journalist) on the news today that the stock markets could be suspended for the duration. 

Where was that reported? 

womble_87

Thrugelmir said:

womble_87 said:

It was suggested (not by anyone official, just a financial journalist) on the news today that the stock markets could be suspended for the duration. 

Where was that reported? 

It wasn't reported, a journalist just said it as speculation. I think it was on Bloomberg but I can't remember 100%